tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post8265402266836475657..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: The Walking Dead 5x14: SpendAustin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-43695272774901742992015-03-23T17:08:01.655-05:002015-03-23T17:08:01.655-05:00Frankly, I could watch a lot of episodes like this...<i>Frankly, I could watch a lot of episodes like this one. </i><br /><br />Me too. This, without the sinister overtones of Rick's looming coup, is what I'd like this show to be, the chronicling of the gradual (with ups and downs) re-establishment of society. <br /><br /><i>So, it sounds like Deanna's husband, Reg, created a solar power grid to power the city. Knowledge is a powerful thing.</i><br /><br />And is a good example of how you can be useful in the zombie poc without being a good shot. I mean, for as much as Tara (and the show implicitly) chastised Eugene for not being good with a gun, the whole reason he was there was because he knew about high tech stuff to get their power grid working again. That's important knowledge to have if you ever want to move past the "just surviving" phase of existence, and it's a good example of how, despite what this show likes to posit sometimes, civilization would gradually re-emerge post-apocalypse. <br /><br /><i>When Glenn and the others on the supply run saw a hoard of zombies behind a chain link fence I felt like it would be easy to just call them over and stab them through the fence.</i><br /><br />They do this *all the time* and it drives me nuts. The zombies are a finite problem. A large one, but a finite one. Once you kill a zombie, it's dead. So when you can kill one easily, with minimal risk, do it. Especially when doing so increases your chances of survival. One less zombie to ever worry about ever again.<br /><br /><i>I'm always amazed at how easily zombies sneak up on people despite the fact that groan almost all the time.</i><br /><br />They don't groan when sneaking up on people. Duh. <br /><br />Seriously though, if I wanted to be charitable, I could argue that zombies sneaking up on people despite making noise could be interpreted as the people being snuck up on having "tunnel hearing". That is, they're so focused on something else, they miss the obvious cues their senses are sending them about that other thing coming up behind them. <br /><br />But I'm not feeling charitable. <br /><br /><i>So Carol found herself in a plot line that hits very close to Carol's proverbial home. Of course her solution, as always, involves murder.</i><br /><br />Seriously. The one time that kid was pestering her, I was like "kid, shut up. She's killed kids for less already!" And then she's all "you're going to have to kill him" and I'm like "of course he is. That's your answer for everything." <br /><br />Like you say, I'm not gonna cry much if the guy hitting his wife and kids dies, but at the same time, there are other options, especially if Rick is supposed to be acting something like a "normal" cop.<br /><br /><i>We're supposed to hate them for that but if Rick's group took similar actions they'd be applauded for making the tough decisions.</i><br /><br />Yep. It's the "everyone's a monster but us" approach the show has that drives me nuts. <br /><br /><i>I did enjoy the revolving door set piece. It was nicely done and suitably tense. Kudos to the writers and director for the creative staging.</i><br /><br />Ditto. That's really the kind of stuff that keeps me watching, for all my other problems with the show. <br /><br />And frankly, having Aiden accidentally shoot the grenade on the zombie was also a pretty effective way of causing the situation to go bad without making Aiden look like a complete dick/incompetent while still making it clear that "Our Guys" are a little more seasoned at this stuff. <br /><br /><i> Is anything he's seen Rick's group do any worse than what he himself has done?</i><br /><br />Right? Like somehow killing the people who tried to eat you is so much worse than locking everyone out of your church and letting them die while you ate the canned goods in relative safety? Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-20522809199325610512015-03-21T10:05:39.157-05:002015-03-21T10:05:39.157-05:00When Glenn and the others on the supply run saw a ...<i>When Glenn and the others on the supply run saw a hoard of zombies behind a chain link fence I felt like it would be easy to just call them over and stab them through the fence. That would've helped them later on.</i><br />This stuff always drives me crazy, especially when it s done by supposedly smart characters like Glenn. You don’t have to clumsily foreshadow every dramatic bit, we knew they were gonna get attacked by zombies inside the warehouse! <br /><br /><i>I'm always amazed at how easily zombies sneak up on people despite the fact that groan almost all the time.</i><br />Especially when it happens in woods, with all the noises from walking through/stepping on bushes, twigs, leaves, dead wood, to give them away...Frenchienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-51749515162122549062015-03-20T17:38:31.032-05:002015-03-20T17:38:31.032-05:00"Could Glenn have shot through the revolving ..."Could Glenn have shot through the revolving door window or was he out of ammo?"<br /><br />Yup, Nicholas (the douchy guy who left Glenn and Noah behind) had the ammo. The plan was, from what I understood, Glenn to break the glass, maybe have him and Noah get out, the Nicholas gets out and quickly allow G & A to reload?wwk5dnoreply@blogger.com